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- 27 Aug 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery
businesses exercised disaster preparedness and recovery, and how entrepreneurs are finding opportunities for economic revival. "Post-disaster settings provide opportunities to examine the effectiveness of leadership in mobilizing... View Details
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
economic performance. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807155 Gome Electronics: Evolving the Business Model Harvard Business School Case 308-026 After 20 years of expansion, Gome... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
18.2%—an effect driven by substitution of water for sugary drinks. Study 2 showed that graphic warning labels work by heightening negative affect and prompting consideration of health consequences. Study 3 indicated that public support... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
experimentation that is required for the initial commercialization and diffusion of technologies. A New Categorization of the U.S. Economy: The Role of Supply Chain Industries in Innovation and Economic Performance By: Delgado, Mercedes,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
organizational management practices all over the world. The project was borne of a widely perceived gap in economic research. In business academia, there is an optimistic tendency to assume that managers generally make decisions in the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
breach leads to feelings of violation and can occur even when employees’ economic contracts are fulfilled. We study the effects of psychological contract breach on three common types of employee participation in budgeting that differ in... View Details
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
PublicationsGlobal, Local, and Contagious Investor Sentiment Authors:Malcolm Baker, Jeffrey Wurgler, and Yu Yuan Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We construct investor sentiment indices for six major... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS
wondered whether a two-year MBA program continues to justify the investment. While HBS remains a leader in the field, Nohria observed that "you need to worry when the health of the whole field doesn't look promising, even when you... View Details
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics The Relevance of Broker Networks for Information Diffusion in the Stock Market By: Di Maggio, Marco, Francesco Franzoni, Amir Kermani, and Carlo Sommavilla Abstract—This paper shows that the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
free entry of rating agencies, the provision of quality ratings is at least partially sustained by the reputational concerns of the rating agencies. The economically significant entry of a third agency into a market that was previously... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
cases and readings in the module and relates the cases included to the main patterns of international capital flows in the last thirty years. Finally, the chapter also presents the key insights from the field of international economics... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2012
- What Do You Think?
Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?
US. A "commons" fosters the process-oriented innovation that in turn contributes to the vitality of the industrial sector and the health of the economy. Respondents to this month's column were somewhat pessimistic that such... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
(Frank) Li, and Dylan B. Minor Abstract—We link the corporate governance literature in financial economics to the agency cost perspective of corporate social responsibility (CSR) to derive theoretical predictions about the relationship... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
attracted the research attention of Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, a professor at Harvard Business School, and Andres Hervas-Drane, a PhD candidate in Economics at the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona and a Visiting Fellow at Harvard... View Details
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
targeted firms. These results suggest a need to check the power of NPEs through changes in U.S. IP policy, in particular to screen out trolling early in the litigation process. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51034 forthcoming View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/711452-PDF-ENG BlackRock Solutions Kenneth A. Froot and Scott WaggonerHarvard Business School Case 211-082 The BlackRock Solutions case examines the different functions and economics of a global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
Kingdom's National Health Service. We show that low levels of structural closure (i.e., structural holes) in a change agent's network aid the initiation and adoption of changes that diverge from the institutional status quo but hinder the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3
as well as economic value and who pair micromanagement with big-picture aspirations about the future. The authors, who have studied, taught, and interviewed executives in some of the world's leading companies, assert that such leaders... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
coincided with the creation of the modern corporation, the mass market, and America's economic preeminence. Given this vast sweep of time, Koehn's narrations—in a series of original essays and timelines—serve as signposts to readers,... View Details